This stage, television and film actress most popular throughout the 1950s is remembered for films such as the Vincent Price horror classic "House of Wax" (1953), the drama "Back from Eternity" (1956) and Jerry Lewis comedy "The Sad Sack" (1957) and on television as Nora Charles facing Peter Lawton's Nick..... More
The great English actor, filmmaker, playwright and author won an Academy Award in 1930 for "Disraeli" -- the first Briton to do so -- and is best known for portrayals of this and other historical figures. Large and bold "With compliments / of / George Arliss" on a heavy stock..... More
This South African theologian and Anglican clergyman was the first black African name Bishop of Johannesburg (1985-86) and same for Archbishop of Cape Town (1986-96); his anti-apartheid activism gained him worldwide influence and earned him the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. Signed FDC, heavy stock 8½" X 5", cancelled in Sunderland..... More
This memorable character actor of stage and television appears in more than one hundred films between 1931 and 1974, often portraying Irish cops, thugs, cabbies and assorted "heavies." IPS, heavy stock 8" X 10", n.p., n.y. Near fine. Minor silvering. Delightful head-and-shoulders sepia-tone portrait of a smiling younger Jenkins at..... More